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Small-Cap Private Equity: Issues, Strategies, Challenges
Published in Investments & Wealth Monitor, September/October 2011

One of the most basic strategies of public equity investing is diversification across market capitalization classes, with large, mid, and small cap being the lingo of choice. Less precisely, similar diversification by investors in private equity can be a sensible strategy as well. This article surveys the smaller end of the institutional middle market of private equity, identifying and analyzing recent trends, risks, and opportunities. Read the article.